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[adam]

hey

On 06/27/2012 03:46 PM, Mick Fuzz wrote:
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>
> Another perspective is the Basic Internet Security which I've been
> resusing the Thunderbird and Enigmail chapters but I'm not really sure
> who to credit, who to thank or who to get Mozilla to sent a Thunderbird
> T-shirt too. I found this page, but individual chapters are not
> credited. I want to share the attribution a bit more specifically rather
> than just pointing to this chapter which lists the participants.
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/index/
>
> Now I know that Sacha is on this list, so I can ask him and Adam if they
> remember - "Hey who wrote that bit, I want to give them credit and get
> them a T-shirt." But someone outside of this social loop wouldn't be
> able to do that.
>

well....that is an incredibly interesting point. At the end of the day I 
think attribution should be meaningful and tell a story if possible. Not 
just be a list of names. But...that is not sustainable over many 
iterations or forks etc. Even naming names is not sustainable I believe. 
I wrote something about this and Mike Linksvayer added some great 
thoughts. Its here (annotate away!):
http://www.booki.cc/a-webpage-is-a-book/_draft/_v/1.0/why-attribution-is-not-sustainable/

The basic conclusion I got to is that attribution is transient. It 
should be captured for a time with a profile connected to the artifact 
(book) and then maintained somewhere in a database but doesnt have to be 
keep being brought up or repeated or carried with the object...the new 
contributors should tell their story, but dont need to feel they must 
duplicate 14 pages of credits...or more...


adam








> nice one
> Mick
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